formula

"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"

Photo: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

1/3 of the prize

United Kingdom

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Cambridge, United Kingdom

b. 1952

(in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India)

Credits: Michael Marsland/Yale University

Thomas A. Steitz

Credits: Micheline Pelletier/Corbis

Ada E. Yonath

1/3 of the prize

USA

Yale University

New Haven, CT, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute

b. 1940

1/3 of the prize

Israel

Weizmann Institute of Science

Rehovot, Israel

b. 1939

Titles, data and places given above refer to the time of the award.